A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Θαλλός), of Miletus, an epigrammatic poet, five of whose epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology. Of these the first is in honour of the birthday of a Roman emperor, or one of the imperial family (Καῖσαρ), on which account Bovinus supposes the poet to be the same person who is mentioned in an extant inscription as a freedman of Germanicus (Mém. de l'Acad. des Inscr. vol. iii. p. 361). The name is given in various forms in the titles to the epigrams; the first is inscribed simply Θάλλου, the second and fourth Θαλοῦ Μιλησίου, the fifth Θαλλοῦ Μιλησίου, and the third Θυηλάου, which is perhaps a corruption of Θυΐλλου. The form Θαλοῦ may be explained by considering Θαλλός and Θαλῆς as mere variations of the same word, as in many similar double forms; or perhaps it may have arisen from a confusion between the poet and the celebrated philosopher, Thales of Miletus; but there is no ground whatever for supposing that the two epigrams are to be ascribed to the philosopher. The name Θαλλός occurs in Athenian inscriptions. (Pape, Wörterbuc/h d. Griech. Eigennamen ; Brunck. Anal. vol. ii. p. 164; Jacobs, Anth. Graec vol. ii. p. 150, vol. xiii. p. 956; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 496.)

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